Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars (fixed audio)

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

I know that this is true, but this video doesnt prove the earth rotates, as the camera moves, the only "true" way to do this would be to have the hubble look at earth and show it spinning and hte back stars staying still. a camera on earth cant "prove" this

[bbsonjohn]

I hate living in Australia

[Apilfydnak]

@gotbing thats exacly what i thought while watching, still cool tho

[Hyland0r]

There's so much mystery out there, makes my life seem so pointless and small.

[w3st3y]

0:39 lazer beam lol

[AlexLieb2802]

Thats an amazing new view of earths rotation!! Thank you very much!

[LaCasaStudioscom]

IMPRESIONANTE

[PosEidoNhNs]

i wish i could know everything !

[kitchenfromhell]

Thumbs up, if you think we're not alone in the universe

Thumbs down if you think we are alone in this universe

[zhawmedia]

really Beautiful video :3

[GregWatermann]

Beautiful.

[317eltoro]

nice work



[FelleFlowify]

FEST HOS MANGEEEE! MANGE MANGE MANGE!!

[daRkjames99]

wow...

[MintJustin]

This is astounding beautiful! 

[iRobii]

Great way to show that WE are the ones in uncontroll. That we are pointless.

[Raum89]

Looks like someone forgot to turn on the gravity! Awsome project!

[goldielocksbear]

5 people think the Earth is flat

[jfinite]

@goldielocksbear You can't fool me - it's turtles all the way down...

[KarasuNoGoh]

@goldielocksbear Well not really, we still have mountains and hill.

[SheepeXero]

I now want to chain myself to the ground so I don't fall off... This is so awesome!

[RobCozzens]

Beautiful! Why didn't I think of doing this?

[gotbing]

Not a fan. Makes it look like the earth rotates around an axis on the surface of the earth.

[tharqal]

@gotbing how would it look if the earth rotated around an axis through its center?

[5kwisgaar]

Now i know, the Earth inflates! :P

[MythOfEchelon]

Ahh I see what you did there...

[jdgrahamo]

When it was first realized that the earth went round the sun, one scientist (I forget who) said, 'You can understand why people believed that the sun goes round the earth, because that's exactly what it looks like.'

His companion replied, 'Well what would it look like if it DIDN'T look like that?'

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

@jdgrahamo i personally think if the sun rotated around the earth it would be more like the moon. they are different. we have obvious seasons, etc... if the sun rotated around the earth it would be way more random i believe, but who knows as gravitationally this is impossible, and will never happen.

[Cohonees]

GREATNESS!

[hotcrossbun06]

amazing



[cballew57]

Oh best of youtube. thanks for blowing my mind again :)

[IKNOWITSADUMBCOMMENT]

It's funny because anybody knows that the stars spin around the earth!

[Landerro50]

Music makes me wanna play Creeper World again :-D

[Minidrags]

would have been better if the shot didn't change ever 0.5 seconds!!

[redeye2806]

lool..what a crap...not impressiv

[McLemonaid]

Now I see things from another perspective

[sbalogh53]

I love the lasers... reminds me of an old Outer Limits episode.

[TruHumDinger]

anyone else recognize the creeper world music

[nitterpixi]

Somebody pleeeease explain what is going on here.... is there a camera on a satellite that's looking at the earth rotating? Like... the mountains at 1:16. I know I sound like an idiot but I'm second guessing myself here.

[Videovince1]

@nitterpixi this is filmed on earth. the turned the camera during the night, so it filmed the stars in the same position all the night. because of this, the earth seems to be rotating ;)

[bulletpeople]

@Videovince1 That would be one way to do. In this case it was done with a stationary camera but the clip was then modified in Sony Vegas using the rotation tool so that the stars remained stationary and the rest of the frame turned around it. It's like watching a tradtional time lapse sky clip while turning your head to keep the big dipper pointing north relative to your eyes. Except done with a video editor. The surprise is that nobody seems to have thought of this easy trick before.

[nitterpixi]

@Videovince1 thank youuuu! I still feel like a moron but that certainly helps :D

[Assassin715]

to bad the earth does not rotate like that

[anguilus4]

this is definitely not HD

[kilroy2505]

3 dislikes?...they probably got motion sickness

[bulletpeople]

Absolutely. That was my favorite part. I wish there were other time lapse video owners out there willing to allow this editing to be done to their work.

[showdown914]

the most impressing part in my opinion was to see the sun "set" in 0:48

[wilmslowforlife]

@showdown914 yeah thats pretty cool

[bugexplorers]

Loving the shooting star at 1:13

[medsa666]

wow read all the comments but lets say the video was a bob marley vid.

haha lol

[biginjp]

We area tiny speck of dust in an infinite universe.

Go ahead and treat yourself today to an ice cream sundae, with nuts.

[Cohonees]

@biginjp Nice one!

[KrayGeddie]

@biginjp Please don't say nuts... you are offending the conspiracy theorists haha

[unitednihilists]

Every once in a while someone shows you something you`ve seen before, but from a different perspective and it blows your mind. Wow do I feel tiny.

[metalsimon]

Viva Chile!

[ThePHOEPTAR]

Those telescopes are fascinating, the digital eyeball of the human race peering out the window of our galaxy. That was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, I shed a single tear in pure awe of both our immense insignificance and incredible drive of discovery beyond our little cosmic backyard.

[drjhospital]

wooooooooaaaaaaaah

[purplishhue]

It makes more sense to watch it like this!

[Fly205Productions]

Like if you come from APOD :)

[jinkis4]

why when i look into the sky, i don't see that much of stars ??? do i need to go up a mountain or something to see so many stars?!?! plz someone tell me :) i like to stare at stars at night :)

[lewisisdaman]

@jinkis4 the camera used takes in alot of light for each frame, showing more dim light (stars).

[MrQarsim]

@jinkis4

Take me with you :D

We will make it a party

[purplishhue]

@jinkis4 light pollution. Try going up north, Canada is good as long as you're 500k from a city or go out on the ocean, far from shore. I live on the far east coast where there's only tiny towns and I still can't see too much!

[BurtonRGA7]

@jinkis4

u will never be able to see as many stars as in long exposure pictures...

u wont see any colors either.

but going to places where theres no or little light pollution will give u breathtaking views of the sky :)

[MoeThaCrazyBartender]

I like the music...

[kf4tvi]

Outpost38c - Laser's are used to create an artificial guide star.

[Outpost38C]

Whats with the lazer at 0:48?

[OJOSAZULESYMORADOS]

@Outpost38C una laser para calibrar el telescopio con una estrella guia

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

@Outpost38C the video is at "VLT" and the telescope there uses a sophisticated system that bends and morphs mirrors to match the distortion of the atmosphere, the laser acts as the guide for the system to know how the atmospher is warping the incoming image. if you have netflix watch "cosmos the beginners guide" it explains VLT in episode 3 or 4

[omgwtfbbqn00bz]

Awesome

[tenhundredkills]

APOD ROCKS!!!

[demonbladeskills]

Thank you so much for this !

[snowhey01]

did anyone notice the shooting star?

[kazantipi]

@snowhey01 i did

[zassounotsukushi]

makes me feel like i'm on the Death Star

[intermender]

@zassounotsukushi lol you're right and I and i also think the telescopes are like R2D2.

[ThinkingManNeil]

GREAT video!

[vascdan]

Amazing video, beautiful music! What's the name of this tune?

[me835]

would have been cooler as one continuous shot

[poorlittlerichiegirl]

this is so magical, thanks for sharing it with us APOD :) I love this so much

[dailosguerra]

Weird, yet closer to reality.

[JediMik]

Прикольно, авторы изображают наземные станции (Землю) относительно звезд. интересно)

[amee921]

Adaptive optics (AO) systems require a wavefront reference source in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light (called "astronomical seeing"). Sufficiently bright stars are not available in all parts of the sky, which greatly limits the usefulness of natural guide star adaptive optics. Instead, one can create an artificial guide star by shining a laser into the atmosphere. wikipedia

[schwambly]

This is interesting, but it doesn't depict reality.

[ArwenPendragon]

Um, last time I checked the Earth doesn't turn on its head in axis?

[terragenguy]

@ArwenPendragon That is the point. ... just think for one little moment that we're the center of the universe.

[ArwenPendragon]

@terragenguy You misunderstood my comment. I get the point of the video, I just meant that whoever made it, didn't make it so that the theoretical rotation is portrayed correctly. The sky wouldn't appear to turn on its head, because that isn't the way the Earth rotates. It would slide by horizontally. Unless we're also supposed to imagine that the camera is positioned right smack bang on the North or South Pole.

[InfRes]

@ArwenPendragon It wouldn't just slide horizontally. from the earth, the sky moves in an circle, and from a particular location, we only see an arc. Fixing the sky would indeed make the earth appear to go around the arc.

[djlaunchpad]

Dang, this has blown my fragile little mind..

[maetrixxx]

What's that orange laser shooting up at 0:40?

[seinkm]

@maetrixxx  " orange laser shooting " see eso.org/public/images/vlt-brun­ier-nuit/

[pitupraveen]

@maetrixxx

via the original video comments, -- adaptive optics and Laser Guide Star -- seem to be the keywords

[maetrixxx]

@pitupraveen that is so cool! Never heard of that before and it looks so trippy. Thanks for expanding my interests :)

[ticisgreat]

this is awesome.

[cqrads]

Good idea to watch it from a different perspective

[RanD0mCity]

nevermind i just read the description.

[RanD0mCity]

whoa how the hell did they do this?

[Despa1rFact0r]

awesome

[shaolindreams]

awesome